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Webster 1913 Edition

Wile

Wile

,
Noun.
[OE.
wile
, AS.
wīl
; cf. Icel.
v[GREEK]l
,
væl
. Cf.
Guile
.]
A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the
wiles
of the devil.
Eph. vi. 11.
Not more almighty to resist our might,
Than wise to frustrate all our plots and
wiles
.
Milton.

Wile

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
[R.]
Spenser.
2.
To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Wile

WILE

,
Noun.
A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice.
That ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Ephesians 6.

WILE

,
Verb.
T.
To deceive; to beguile. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

wíle

wíle

See also: wile and Wile

Shuswap

Noun

wíle

  1. wila, black tree lichen (edible lichen)

References

  • Aert Hendrik Kuipers, A Report on Shuswap, with a Squamish Lexical Appendix (ISBN 9068311921, 1989) and A classified English-Shuswap word-list (1975)

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